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Bubur Manado (Manado Porridge)

bubur-manado

Ingredients:

  • 250 gram long grain rice
  • 2 ears of corn, kernels stripped from the cobs
  • water
  • 5 long string beans
  • ? cup spinach leaves
  • ? cup kangkung leaves (water convolvulus)
  • 200 gram pumpkin, cut in 2 x 2 cm pieces of 1 cm thickness
  • 20 kemangi (Horappa basil) leaves
  • salt to taste

Directions:

Tomato Sauce

  • Mix finely sliced red chilies, bird’s eye chilies, shallots and tomatoes together.
  • Add salt and stir until everything is well-blended.

Porridge

  • Boil the rice together with the corn kernels and the salt in enough water to cover rice to a depth of 6 cm
  • After the water comes to a boil, add the long beans, cut in 5 cm lengths. Cook until the rice is half done; add the spinach leaves, the kangkung, the pumpkin, and the basil. Simmer tightly covered, until rice is done. Remove.
  • Serve with tomato sauce and fried salty fish.
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